Author: John Green. Summary: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. My Thoughts: Well, I picked this up because of popularity. – it made a big splash in a certain section of the bookworm community, and there are intriguing quotes floating around in all the fan merchandise, and- I was curious. I probably should have known better. Anyway, I was really disappointed. All those quirky quotes about the nature of life and death just sound pretentious and vaguely existentialist coming from a teenage boy. And having your signature ‘thing’ be ‘okay’? I’m sorry, that’s just… boring. I get that all the characters have cancer and it’s tragic and painful and unfair. But that’s still not enough to automatically make you an interesting character. (And how could the author miss the opportunity of ending mid-sentence? It would have been simultaneously meta and tragic and funny…